Indian School of Management and Entrepreneurship, managed by the family office of Yes Bank chief Rana Kapoor's daughters, has launched a specialised accelerator programme in Mumbai for fintech startups.

NetApp will provide an equity-free grant of $15,000 to the startups after the completion of the programme. Selected startups will receive technology and business mentorship as well as access to markets and investors

The chosen few includes a startup who harnesses the power of virtual reality to save around 90% cost that is invested in life-size prototyping. Another includes a startup that is developing a market viable diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) screening.

Google has shortlisted six Indian startups for the fourth class of its Launchpad Accelerator programme. With this batch, a total of 26 Indian startups have so far joined the accelerator programme from India.

Nomura has launched the 'Voyager Nomura Fintech Partnership', a global accelerator cum co-creation platform to collaborate with startups all over the world to build products and solutions specifically for capital markets and investment banking (CMIB)

Fintech is one of the five focus areas for the cohort in the Summer 2017 batch. Together with PayU India, Axilor aims to improve the odds of success of FinTech startups and make them investible faster.

Run by members of the Oracle research and development team, the program provides six months of mentoring from technical and business experts,access to Oracle customers, partners and investors, and free Oracle Cloud credits.